Airsoft was born by pure chance in America, with lumberjacks using paintball guns to mark trees for felling. One of these lumberjacks jokingly hit one of his colleagues, who did not hesitate to respond, starting a real skirmish. The Japanese then followed up this idea by reproducing real weapons that fired plastic pellets containing paint. And so Airsoft was born.
Airsoft is a role-playing game that simulates war, a skirmish between several factions and opponents. All the equipment is reproduced, including weapons that are called replicas, costumes, strategies and everything else needed to simulate a real war. But with due distances from the real dimension of a battle. In fact, it will not be possible to resort to physical contact, but you will be able to literally hit your opponent only through these Airsoft pellets fired by the reproduced weapons. Moreover, it is a game that has a high ethical and moral value as participants will have to declare themselves hit, as the whole system is based on the trust and loyalty of the players involved. It ends with one team winning once the opponents have all been, so to speak, eliminated, but the rules may vary from time to time.
It is a game that does not at all espouse the concept of violence and aggression and does not push players to believe that war is just and should be waged. Although with due proportion, those who take part experience at first hand what the consequences and feelings of war can be. This leads the players to have a greater awareness of what might happen and the suffering that such conflicts cause, being able to fully understand the meaning and the suffering that real war brings into people’s lives, making sure that it can remain simply a game, however realistic it may be.
Airsoft is now a sport that is recognised in all respects by certain sports promotion bodies. Also, the Airsoft becomes popular among activities related to training for police and security personnel. Those who play this discipline are led to live it with seriousness and to have particular attention to detail, because for a good outcome and to enjoy a game experience to the maximum potential, you have to think of everything in detail. Only in this way will it be possible to recreate the environment and atmosphere that is really experienced in battle. Airsoft is also a game that reinforces the value of friendship and stimulates the achievement of a team goal.
Why has Airsoft become one of the most popular games?
Airsoft is not only a lot of fun and competitive, but it also brings a number of benefits to those who play it, so much so that it is used by major companies or groups of people as training to increase team spirit and enhance the concept of teams. From an individual point of view, this new sport, which has been attracting more and more people for several years now, helps you to keep in shape and have a good physical condition.
By practising it, you will be forced to use your strength and explosiveness to carry out the movements and movements you need to make. It also gives each individual participant the opportunity to have more confidence in their own means, but above all to have more confidence in others, leading them to believe in team spirit, and to believe that achieving a goal together and with the help of others is better than trying to achieve it on your own.
As if that wasn’t enough, it improves coordination and the ability to move through space and makes the player more likely to make decisions in a short space of time, making them better at processing the information available. Finally, it provides a unique experience for each participant, who will be catapulted into an environment surrounded by nature, having to find a way to integrate with it at all costs, turning any obstacles into possible advantages for their team.
All these positive factors make this sport one of the most fun and competitive at the moment. In addition, the combination of variants that contribute to the game’s attractiveness leads people to become even more passionate about Airsoft, which is becoming more and more popular, attracting the attention of an increasing number of people who can’t wait to start playing it and take the opportunity to make new friends.
